Typhoon Babs (1951)
Typhoon Babs reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between December 10, 1951 and December 17, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Typhoon Babs, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1951 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- December 10, 1951 to December 17, 1951
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 638 km (396 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 11.5
- Identifier
- WP171951
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 00:00 | 9.0N 143.0E | 1006 mb | Mixed | |
| Dec 10, 06:00 | 9.0N 142.0E | 1004 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 10, 12:00 | 9.0N 141.0E | 1004 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 10, 18:00 | 9.1N 139.9E | 1000 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 11, 00:00 | 9.2N 138.9E | 990 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 11, 06:00 | 9.3N 137.6E | 45 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 11, 12:00 | 10.0N 136.4E | 45 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 11, 18:00 | 10.6N 135.3E | 50 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 12, 00:00 | 11.3N 134.1E | 50 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 12, 06:00 | 12.1N 133.1E | 55 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 12, 12:00 | 12.8N 132.2E | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 12, 18:00 | 13.3N 131.7E | 65 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 13, 00:00 | 13.8N 131.4E | 70 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 13, 06:00 | 14.4N 131.0E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 13, 12:00 | 15.1N 130.7E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 13, 18:00 | 16.1N 130.8E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 14, 00:00 | 17.0N 131.4E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 14, 06:00 | 17.8N 132.2E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 14, 12:00 | 18.1N 133.7E | 80 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 14, 18:00 | 18.3N 135.0E | 90 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 15, 00:00 | 18.8N 135.9E | 100 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 15, 06:00 | 19.8N 139.2E | 100 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 15, 12:00 | 21.2N 145.3E | 90 kt | 980 mb | Mixed |
| Dec 15, 18:00 | 24.8N 150.8E | 80 kt | 986 mb | Mixed |
| Dec 16, 00:00 | 29.0N 156.0E | 70 kt | 990 mb | Mixed |
| Dec 16, 06:00 | 32.2N 160.0E | 60 kt | 990 mb | Mixed |
| Dec 16, 12:00 | 35.1N 165.6E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 16, 18:00 | 37.3N 168.5E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 17, 00:00 | 39.6N 171.5E | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Dec 17, 06:00 | 47.5N 174.0E | 30 kt | Tropical storm |
Other Western Pacific storms of 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon GeorgiaWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon HopeWestern Pacific · 1951
- Super Typhoon IrisWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon JoanWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon KateWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon LouiseWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon MargeWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon NoraWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon OraWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon PatWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon SarahWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1951
- Tropical Storm VeraWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon WandaWestern Pacific · 1951
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951
- Typhoon AmyWestern Pacific · 1951 · 991 deaths
What this means
A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.
Sources
Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.